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Shakedown Hawaii, the follow up to Retro City Rampage should be on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 17 Jan 2016

Shakedown Hawaii is something that popped up in my twitter feed today, and I must say it looks really rather good. Reminds me of the original Grand Theft Auto games quite a lot.

Disassembling NWScript bytecode with the open source project 'xoreos'

By DrMcCoy, 16 Jan 2016

xoreos is a FLOSS project aiming to reimplement BioWare's Aurora engine (and derivatives), covering their games starting with Neverwinter Nights and potentially up to Dragon Age II. This post gives a short update on the current progress.

The Humble Store is having a winter sale, go grab cheap games

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

It's getting pretty cold outside, so now is a good time to stock up on some games isn't it? Good thing Humble Store is now having a winter sale.

Slime Rancher now on Steam Early Access, it's so cute, watch out for killer rainbow slime

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

Slime Rancher is quickly becoming one of my favourite indie games. It's a cute and silly game, and I have fallen in love with those stupid little smiling slimes.

Albion Online update Brutus sounds like it will be rather good

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

I actually love Albion Online, and I think it's going to be a big hit when they add in more content and quality of life stuff. They have listened and the 'Brutus' update is coming.

SteamOS beta update adds bluetooth pairing support

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

SteamOS just keeps getting better at actually being a useful system. A beta update just launched giving you access to easily pair bluetooth gear to SteamOS.

Friday Livestream, finally with new releases! Starting at 6 PM UTC

By Samsai, 15 Jan 2016

It's time for our weekly livestream once again and luckily this time around we have a couple of new games to play! So, let's have fun with these recent releases on the traditional Friday Livestream of Linux games and random discussion!

Nvidia talk Vulkan in a developer blog post, they say Vulkan supplements OpenGL

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

Nvidia are talking about Vulkan a little more now, which is really good to see. Looks like they will have a little bit of support for it on "day-zero" too.

The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare now in closed testing for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 15 Jan 2016

The Mean Greens - Plastic Warfare is a title I really want to try, but I didn't have time to get into the closed-beta. I've been told by a few people now that the Linux beta is running really well.

Papo & Yo finally has a Linux version on Steam, two years later

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2016

Papo & Yo, a popular game that was ported to Linux with the Humble Indie Bundle X two years ago finally has the Linux version on Steam.

Medieval II: Total War Collection released for Linux & SteamOS

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2016

Feral Interactive have released another big strategy title for us, today we are graced with Medieval II: Total War Collection!

Codeweavers CrossOver 15.0.1 is now available

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2016

For you Wine lovers who also support Codeweavers and Wine development, a new version 15.0.1 is now available.

Mesa 11.1.1 available, has patches for GRID Autosport

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2016

Good news open source GPU driver users, Mesa 11.1.1 has launched and it even includes some patches for GRID Autosport.

OUYA is blocking a Linux version of That Dragon, Cancer being on Steam

By Liam Dawe, 14 Jan 2016

I was wondering what was going on with the silence of That Dragon, Cancer. Linux wasn't listed on their website, and it launched on Steam without the promised Linux version. Now at least we know. Check the bottom for tweets to us from the developer.

Hypercharge looks like an amazing UE4 shooter that will support Linux

By Liam Dawe, 13 Jan 2016

Fancy becoming a child's action figure? Hypercharge will let you do this, and destroy your friends in this multiplayer shooter.

Space Grunts, a really rather great turn-based action roguelike now fully released

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2016

I talked about Space Grunts a bit back in September of last year, and it was already pretty damn good. Today marks the official full release, so go get it.

The 2015 GamingOnLinux GOTY award is now over, here's the results!

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2016

The second ever GamingOnLinux GOTY award is now over! Thank you to every one who voted, give yourselves a pat on the back.

Homefront: The Revolution aiming for a day-1 Linux & SteamOS release on May 20th

By Liam Dawe, 12 Jan 2016

I didn't expect Deep Silver to reply to me so quickly, but it seems the Linux & SteamOS release of Homefront: The Revolution will come out alongside Windows on May 20th!

Punch Club, a boxing tycoon management game now on Linux & SteamOS, some thoughts

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2016

A boxing tycoon management game named 'Punch Club', it was too fun an idea to pass up on. I took a look and here's my findings.

This years GDC conference will have a very interesting Vulkan & DX12 talk from AMD

By Liam Dawe, 11 Jan 2016

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) isn't too far away now, and a few more sessions are starting to appear. One in particular caught the interesting of a reader who sent it in, and now it's exciting me too.